Soulpepper Theatre Company
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Soulpepper Theatre Company is a Toronto, Ontario-based theatre company dedicated to presenting classic plays.
It was founded in 1998 by twelve Toronto artists who dreamed of a company that would produce lesser known theatrical classics. Soulpepper has since become an important part of Toronto's theatre scene. Its plays have seen rave reviews for its Canadian interpretations of works by such noted playwrights as Harold Pinter, Thornton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Anton Chekhov. The current artistic director is Albert Schultz.
László Marton, artistic director of the Vígszínház in Budapest, Hungary and one of the most important contemporary theatre directors, has had numerous productions over the years at Soulpepper: Molnár's The Play’s the Thing (1999, 2003), Chekhov's Platonov (1999, 2000), Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (2001, 2002), Feydeau's A Flea in her Ear (2001), Goldoni's The Mistress of the Inn (2004), and Ibsen's The Wild Duck (2005).
Soulpepper's founding members are:
- Martha Burns
- Susan Coyne
- Ted Dykstra
- Michael Hanrahan
- Stuart Hughes
- Diana Leblanc
- Diego Matamoros
- Nancy Palk
- Albert Schultz
- Robyn Stevan
- William Webster
- Joseph Ziegler
In 2005, the Soulpepper Theatre Company moved into its permanent building, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. The joint project with the George Brown College theatre school was designed by local firm KPMB and is located in Toronto's historic Distillery District.
